....-Omer, and Noyon, traces of the feast lingered into the sixteenth century despite both national and local opposition. This chapter also considers two church councils—the diocesan synod of Langres and the provincial council of Tours—whose opposition to the Feast of Fools anticipated that of the Council...

... Tilliot Jean Bénigne Lucotte du brandons dimanche des cathedral chapters Feast of Fools church councils Châlons-en-Champagne Besançon Beaune Autun Reims The cumulative impact of Gerson’s attacks, the Council of Basel, the Pragmatic Sanction, and the letter from the faculty of theology in Paris...

... Stephen of Dora papal legate in Palestine Liber Pontificalis Sigibert Frankish king Victor of Carthage fl 650 Chalon Council of ?650 John of Philadelphia and Lateran acta Theodore Spoudaeus author of Commemoratio and Pope Martin Price Richard Council of Chalcedon east west church councils...

... of theological literature is polemical, intended against those who challenged Christian orthodoxy. The decisions, doctrinal definitions, and disciplinary canons of the church councils form another genre of theological literature. Two other genres of theological literature from the Byzantium Era are poetry...

...William II, Duke of Normandy, succeeded to the Duchy of Normandy in 1035 as a boy aged only some 7 years. Some features of the Norman church under Duke William are particularly relevant when considering the position of Lanfranc. One was the series of church councils which were held in the Duchy...

...In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe 700 years later during the 1230s, when church councils and public authorities began...

...Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350–450. Maijastina Kahlos. Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190067250.001.0001 This chapter discusses the various ways in which bishops and church councils coped with religious diversity, attempting to enforce...

... and childhood documents and documentary practice formulae formularies matricula migrants and migration relics agriculture demographics of infant mortality sermons bishops contagion church councils disease hospitals matricula medicine plague prevention poverty public health To his eternal lord...

... in the West is the evidence for martyrdoms from Numidia, and the various Canons of Elvira, a Church Council held in Spain at some point between the 290s and the mid 4th century. Ste. Croix demonstrates that all western evidence for persecution is compatible with enforcement under Diocletian's first edict...

... Wedderburn brothers of Dundee tonsures Old Hughes Oliphant Noah Resurrection the Passion the St Nicholas church Aberdeen transubstantiation Aberdeen Old and New Reformation Scotland Scottish Reformation Church Councils Catholic Reform Protestant Reformed Worship Book of Common Order Archbishop...

... education iconoclasm magic Basil of Caesarea marriage law patriarch of Constantinople abortion homicide oaths adultery slaves Constantine I pope Novels of Justinian Canon law Church councils Justinian II Constantine IV imperial ideology Islam Christianity Trullan Council Quinisext...

... of fertility magic alongside impotence magic. The chapter also compares the long, academic confession manuals with shorter ones which summarized the basics of pastoral care, and with the statutes of church councils. It argues that these short manuals and statutes rarely mention impotence magic, and were more...

...This section presents the range of measures regulating the faculty jurisdiction and clergy discipline of the Church of England. It begins with the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956, which covers the definitions of ‘Council’, ‘Diocesan Authority’, ‘Minister’ and ‘Parish’, and ‘Relevant...

... of the Church Councils. Each of these traditions remained vital and active in New Rome, where their evolving interactions defined a fascinating culture. The recovery of east Roman identity is not the only, or even the main, storyline of this book. Its primary goal is to explain, through a combination...

..., but still kept very close to the Justinianic example. Byzantium has also produced an extensive ecclesiastical legal literature. Church councils promulgated decisions, kanones, and their collections form the nucleus of canon law. Codex Iustinianus Digest Gaius Institutes Justinian I...

... Roueché Charlotte Whitby Mary church councils ecumenical councils records The publication in three volumes in the series Translated Texts for Historians of a complete English translation with notes of the materials relating to the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451) by Richard Price and Michael Gaddis...

... of Alexandria and the ‘Theodosians’ Second Council Syriac text ecumenical councils church councils miaphysite theology Theodosius II Marcian Justinian The Second Council of Ephesus and the Council of Chalcedon, called two years later, are inextricably linked, by their historical context...

... composition and applied them to new institutional settings: university elections, church councils and especially parliaments. It concludes with an analysis of the most impressive politic history of the early Stuart parliament, Sir John Eliot’s Negotium posterorum. Composed during Eliot’s...

...This chapter examines the legislation, predominantly the canons promulgated by church councils, but also the civil legislation issued by Justinian, and ‘the theory’ of elections, compiled from commentary upon actual elections. It is argued that it was never the intention of the legislation to take...